Sport

Olympic bobsleigh champion Trunenkov banned for four years

Dimitriy Trunenkov, a member of Russia's four-man Bobsleigh gold medal winners at the Sochi Olympics, has been banned for unspecified doping offences for four years.

31 January 2017

Sport

Sprint legend Bolt loses 2008 Olympic relay gold after team mate Carter tests positive

Jamaica’s Usain Bolt has lost one of his nine Olympic gold medals and his perfect triple treble of Games’ sprint victories after team mate Nesta Carter was found guilty of doping at the 2008 Beijing…

25 January 2017

Russia

Russia rows back on admission of "institutional" doping

Russian anti-doping agency RUSADA said the "impression had wrongly been given that its leadership recognised there had been an "institutional conspiracy."

28 December 2016

Sport

Putin denies state-sponsored doping programme in Russia

Russian president Vladimir Putin on Friday once again denied allegations of state-sponsored doping programme in the country, but admitted Russia “does have problems with…

23 December 2016

Russia

Russian athletics chief: 'we are working to resolve problems'

The newly re-elected head of Russian athletics says reforms are underway, after more revelations of systematic doping.

9 December 2016

Russia

More than 1000 Russian athletes benefited from state-sponsored doping - report

More than 1000 athletes, including Olympic medalists, are implicated in the McLaren report on Russian state-sponsored doping.

9 December 2016

Sport

Doping under the microscope with Dr Fischetto

The 1st International Conference on “Doping in the new era” took place over the weekend in the Greek town of Thessaloniki.

6 December 2016

Sport

Russian athletes remain suspended

The IAAF has voted to extend Russia’s ban from international athletics competitions for state-sponsored doping.

1 December 2016

Sport

Dan Carter cleared by French Rugby Federation

The French Rugby Federation has cleared former All Blacks Dan Carter of anti-doping breaches after the Top 14 final.

18 October 2016

Russia

Russian Olympic chief Zhukov to step down

Alexander Zhukov is stepping down as head of Russia’s Olympic Committee.

12 October 2016

Sport

Maria Sharapova's doping ban reduced on appeal

Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has had her two-year doping ban reduced on appeal.

4 October 2016

Sport

Heavyweight champ Fury test positive for cocaine

Undefeated World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury has tested positive for Cocaine.

30 September 2016

Sport

Farah and Rose named in latest Fancy Bears leak

Olympic champions Mo Farah and Justin Rose were among athletes targeted on Monday in the latest leak of confidential medical documents that the World Anti-Doping Agency says were shared by the Fancy B

19 September 2016

Sport

Leaked medical files intensifies Therepeutic Use Exemptions debate

The debate on Therepeutic Use Exemptions in sport is reaching boiling point following the leaking of confidential medical files of scores of high-profile…

16 September 2016

Sport

Wiggins and Froome have medical records leaked

A group of hackers that accessed the World Anti Doping Agency’s database has released more confidential medical files of high-profile athletes.

15 September 2016

Sport

Russia denies involvement in WADA hack

Russian sports minister Vitaly Mutko has firmly denied that his government had something to do with the recent hacking of the World Anti doping agency’s database that resulted in the confidential medi

14 September 2016

Sport

IOC disqualify six athletes from Beijing 2008

The International Olympic Committee continued its fight against doping by disqualifying six more athletes for having failed tests at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

31 August 2016

Sport

Rio 2016: Russia Paralympics ban confirmed

Russia has lost its appeal against its ban from next month’s Rio Paralympics because of a state-sponsored doping programme.

23 August 2016

Brazil

Russia loses appeal against Paralympics ban

Russia won’t take part in next month’s Rio Paralympics after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) upheld a ban imposed over the state-sponsored doping…

23 August 2016

Russia

Russia stripped of Beijing Olympic relay gold for doping

17 August 2016